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From: Peter Ceresole on 9 Jul 2010 01:48 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > Don't the current crop of Bluetooth keyboards require a minimum version > of OS X? Ah, the website says 10.5.8 + Keyboard Update 2.0. What's your > iG5 running? Thank you, that's the badger. -- Peter
From: Jon B on 9 Jul 2010 05:30 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I have this new iMac. It has one of the new short 'Chiclet' boards, with > a Magic Mouse. Both are nice enough, but I really would like to use my > Matias Tactilepro keyboard. Via USB, this works absolutely fine. > However, I'd like to use the Chiclet board with my iG5. How do I do > that? > > I thought they were Bluetooth keyboards, but clearly not. I have a > Bluetooth dongle on the iG5 and it works fine, but not for the keyboard. > > Is there any way to get one of these keyboards working with my iG5? > > The real laugh is that I'm discovering all kinds of incompatibilities > with 10.6.4, but the thing that works best is... Eudora 6.2.4. Out of > production for these past four years, but still great. I've got a mate running one of the chiclet keyboards on a G4 iMac with a cheapold BT dongle, so they do work... -- Jon B Above email address IS valid. <http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
From: Sara on 9 Jul 2010 11:05 In article <89mto0FafaU2(a)mid.individual.net>, Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > On 08/07/2010 21:30, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 21:10:24 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter > > Ceresole) wrote: > > > >> I thought they were Bluetooth keyboards, but clearly not. I have a > >> Bluetooth dongle on the iG5 and it works fine, but not for the keyboard. > > > > Those keyboards are bluetooth, fer sure. Have you gone through the > > procedure at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1809 ? > > > > I didn't try a keyboard with that dongle, but it worked fine with a > > Magic Mouse so it bloody ought to work with the keyboard! > > And remember Sara's recent post saying that one BT keyboard simply > refused to work with one of her Macs but did so just fine with another. I eventually got it hooked up to right one thusly: When the Mac is sitting there searching for a keyboard to connect to, press the power button on the keyboard until it starts flashing, then the Mac can see it an attachment is possiblle. -- Sara Run out of ideas for a sig for the moment
From: Peter Ceresole on 9 Jul 2010 11:15
Sara <saramerriman(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > When the Mac is sitting there searching for a keyboard to connect to, > press the power button on the keyboard until it starts flashing, then > the Mac can see it an attachment is possiblle. Gosh. I'll have to try that- although I now have the iG5 connected to a Nimitz, and that's actually nicer than the Chiclet keyboard. Heavier and bulkier, but then it's going to be static in Geneva... -- Peter |